Straggler

Just now, ferguson1 said:

Koch down

Koch being worked on by 2 men.

Omg the defending AI is so stupid, the worst it has ever been. I'm watching as my defence with 6 men in my own box manage to leave 2 attackers unmarked. Switching defenders does me no good as they are all so out of position I can't get anywhere near them. I just watched a goal back where my defenders formed a 4 man semicircle around a single striker, not a single one got close, not a single one got between striker and the goal and none of them tried to cut out the pass. The striker just stood there until the pass came in then boom, another goal in a 6-2 loss.  Gameplay is shite.

IMO the game as a single player experience so far is awful. 14 games into my first career mode and there have been 74 goals scored in total. An average of over 5 goals a game. It feels scripted beyond my experience of any other year. I will go 3 up in a game then my team is unable to complete a tackle or a pass and I let in 3 goals in 15 minutes. It's so frustrating to play. 

And the keeping is so broken. It's like they jump out if the way of the ball on occasions and more often than not they just fall over rather than dive. It is to football what police squad is to detective work.

23 minutes ago, bickster said:

Depends, critical mass is important. If they get the numbers, they can’t remove the whip from them because they’d suddenly have no majority and effectively couldn’t rely on the votes of ex-members of the parliamentary party who would also have an axe to grind. If there are enough they won’t lose the whip.

It could then play out a number of ways because there’s absolutely no way they’ll want to go to the country because they’ll get totally destroyed

Don't disagree with any of that. However that is proof of a sense of self preservation, not of conscience.

12 minutes ago, sidcow said:

They know they are gone in 2 years anyway unless they try to do something to change it. It's like choosing the manner of your own death, surely there are 35 with enough conscious to fall on their swords rather than see the entire country go down the swanny.

35 Tories with a conscience? Good luck with that. More likely to find life on Jupiter.

And what happened to the goalkeepers? They are awful.

I'm not sure this is a very good game at the moment.  Played last night for a short time.  My first game ended 5-5.  Scoring goals is stupidly easy for the user and for the AI.  I'm not feeling a simulation here, it is very arcade game IMO.  Will put some more time in it to get a better feel, but not impressed with gameplay so far.

Have you heard Truss this morning? She has no clue. She cannot answer any questions sensibly. Has no recognition that what she has done has made things worse. An absolute nightmare. 

4 hours ago, villa4europe said:

After enjoying it at the start I'm stepping away after about 5 hours

Played 10 PL games, won 4 drawn 1 lost 5, scored 24 conceded 27, its just **** daft, they can't balance this game, been like it for years 

And whoever thought the bubbles at West ham was a good idea can **** right off 

The bubbles can absolutely do one. Would disable it in a heartbeat if the option was there 

27 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

The thing what used to kill career mode was you could get Plymouth Argyle into the Premier league and they'd still have a transfer budget of 200k

I don't mind that so much. I just imagine that Ellis is the chairman 

1 hour ago, GarethRDR said:

The last few iterations have had some carryover for stuff they haven't resolved in the previous game, so I'm expecting the random "forfeiting non-existent Champion's League games" glitch to still be in there.  Not game breaking per se, but an annoyance.

As far as I'm concerned, if there isn't a way to remove them before starting a CM save, I'm treating the entire Ted Lasso thing as **** glitch.  Because that's what I wanted, EA; even less realism in my Career Modes. 

Yeah the amount of time that has gone into minor things that make no difference is silly with basic bugs still littering the game.  That Champions League glitch forced me to forfeit a League One game that I would otherwise have played.  It hasn't ruined the save, but had it been a more crucial game I would have been properly pissed off.

Any bugs spotted in career mode yet?

Just now, Stevo985 said:

The gymnastics people do to blame stuff on Labour is amazing

Crazy isn't it.  I've read what the IMF have to say and funnily enough, they don't mention Starmer once. 

If they do ditch Truss a GE has to be the next step. This cannot go on 

The tax cuts help almost no one. The amount saved in tax is dwarfed by the negative impact on the economy. The tanking of the pound plus all the already known problems of Brexit, inflation, fuel prices etc make this tax savings evaporate even as they are implemented. The only people who are doing well out of this are the people who bet against us on the markets.  For the maths to work out in your favour you already have to have so much money that you wouldn't notice the difference anyway.

2 hours ago, It's Your Round said:

Much like Villa under Gerrard, I find it really hard to watch England under Southgate. The football saps the life out of you and there’s much better ways to spend time than to be angry at something you can’t change. I’ll probably tune into some of the World Cup, but I don’t expect to see anything exciting from England.

I watched reruns of game of thrones last night. I say that as someone who turned into forest green Vs Exeter today just because it was on.

1 minute ago, AshVilla said:

Don't worry you can move to any european country of your choosing.

Oh wait...

Yep, they totally f'd us in every conceivable way.  I'm looking at leaving too, and our choices have gone from very many easily available destinations to points systems, most of which I don't qualify for.  I could get into the USA, but not interested in jumping from pan into fire.

Saw the first 3 episodes of Andor last night.  Really enjoyed it.  They are spending time building story, it is well acted, writing is good and it looks great.  Not flashy great, but lived in great.  It looks real enough to not jar you out of the story.  Fan service BS is at a minimum too, which is a good thing.

4 minutes ago, bickster said:

Any Trade Deal with the US would be on their terms not ours

The ill fated TTIP was an awful deal with some VERY bad parts in it.

It would very definitely not be a trade deal amongst equals

It's the deal the NHS is being softened up for. US private healthcare is positively tumescent with the idea of getting its hands on our NHS.

Loosing the NHS into private hands would be even worse than Brexit IMO and it is happening Infront of our eyes.

On 16/09/2022 at 14:35, HKP90 said:

How quick did it play? The beta from last year felt slower and heavier, which I loved. Then it was released and patches made it feel more like 21. 

So true. This is one of the most frustrating parts of the game. At release it was a really good FIFA. The patches absolutely made the gameplay worse. 

I enjoy the fallacy that the Royal family stay out of politics, or that the power they have is only ceremonial. Sure they don't do much out loud, but on the quiet in the background on matters of real estate, taxes etc they have a very powerful and direct route into policy makers that they are only too happy to use. Also breaking the law as a Royal is pretty much ok. Just imagine what would happen to you if you drove into a bus stop full of waiting passengers.

They don't care much for politics it's true, but when it comes to cold hard cash they are happy to dip a toe in the water.

One example

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A series of government memos unearthed in the National Archives reveal that Elizabeth Windsor’s private lawyer put pressure on ministers to alter proposed legislation to prevent her shareholdings from being disclosed to the public.

 

Following the Queen’s intervention, the government inserted a clause into the law granting itself the power to exempt companies used by “heads of state” from new transparency measures.

1 hour ago, It's Your Round said:

“We are very careful about those who serve for sexual articles (charges), but we understand mistakes can be made”.

So we really don’t care whether you’ve raped your way through a nursery school, as long as it was a mistake. 
 

I wonder how much training these cons get before they’re dropped off at the front line? 

 

For the work they will be doing in Ukraine they are already overqualified.